Efficient separation of the orbital angular momentum eigenstates of light

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mirhosseini, Mohammad ^a   Malik, Mehul ^a,b   Shi, Zhimin ^a,c   Boyd, Robert W ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; LIGHT; OPTICS; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE;

EID: 84887959159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3781     Document Type: Article

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